residency
nounHow many syllables in residency?
There are 4 syllables in the word residency.How to pronounce residency:
Definition of residency:
- residency (noun):
- a usually official place of residence
- the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship).
Synonyms for residency:
abidance
billet
habitation
occupancy
occupation
office
place
position
possession
post
residence
situation
spot
Antonyms for residency:
entertainment
fun
giving up
hobby
pastime
surrender
yielding
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- inundation
- fluctuating
- communique
- anapestic
- inessential
- horseplayer
- genealogy
- hysteria
- catamaran
- antechamber
- refrigerate
- jalapeno
- equitable
- enervated
- confirmation
- reconstruction
- primordial
- evasively
- depreciation
- controllable
- unceasingly
- photocopy
- coprophilic
- voluntary
- self-complacent
- propensity
- disappearing
- uncreative
- estimating
- admonishment
- unstintingly
- remonstration
- macchiato
- literary
- infamously
- defamation
- checkerboarding
- cappuccino
- drepanocyte
- consistencies
- coincidental
- preventative
- garrulity
- cryptophytic
- intriguingly
- culinary
- creativeness
- sickeningly
- reproachfully
- redistribute
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
In English, certain prefixes and suffixes, when added to a base word, can change its syllable count, as with 'happy' (2 syllables) becoming 'unhappiness' (4 syllables).
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